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1Y0-401 · Question #396

Scenario: The company is designing a cost-efficient environment for the call center workers. The IT department is replacing the existing thin clients with newer models. What are the benefits of…

The correct answer is A. Highest user density and lowest cost. Using hosted shared servers with manual OS installation provides the fundamental benefits of high user density and lowest cost due to multiple users sharing a single server operating system.

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Scenario: The company is designing a cost-efficient environment for the call center workers. The IT department is replacing the existing thin clients with newer models. What are the benefits of using hosted shared servers and manually installing the operating system?

Options

  • AHighest user density and lowest cost
  • BHighest level of user personalization
  • CLowest storage performance requirement and highest user density
  • DLowest cost and highest application compatibility

How the community answered

(18 responses)
  • A
    72% (13)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    6% (1)
  • D
    17% (3)

Why each option

Using hosted shared servers with manual OS installation provides the fundamental benefits of high user density and lowest cost due to multiple users sharing a single server operating system.

AHighest user density and lowest costCorrect

Hosted shared servers leverage a multi-user operating system environment, such as Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH), where multiple users concurrently access applications and data on a single server. This shared resource model inherently maximizes user density and significantly reduces the per-user infrastructure costs compared to dedicated desktop solutions.

BHighest level of user personalization

Shared server environments offer limited user personalization as changes generally affect all users or are non-persistent, unlike dedicated desktops.

CLowest storage performance requirement and highest user density

Manually installing an operating system on individual servers typically requires local storage for each, which can increase storage performance requirements rather than lowering them.

DLowest cost and highest application compatibility

While hosted shared servers are low cost, not all applications are compatible with multi-user environments, meaning 'highest application compatibility' is incorrect.

Concept tested: Benefits of shared hosted desktops (RDSH)

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-and-device-support

Topics

#Hosted Shared Servers#manual OS install#user density#cost efficiency

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